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William Wordsworth, né le 7 avril 1770 à Cockermouth , mort le 23 avril 1850 à Rydal , près d'Ambleside , est un poète anglais. Il inaugure, avec Samuel Taylor Coleridge, la période romantique de la littérature anglaise lors de la publication de Lyrical Ballads . Son œuvre maîtresse est Le Prélude, poème autobiographique consacré aux expériences fondatrices de sa jeunesse. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. avril 1770 – 23. avril 1850  •  Autres noms Уильям Вордсворт, ویلیام وردزورث
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William Wordsworth Citations

William Wordsworth: Citations en anglais

“But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.”

William Wordsworth

Part III, No. 7 - Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

“A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.”

William Wordsworth

The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A power is passing from the earth.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox.

“Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”

William Wordsworth

Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,
An emblem yields to friends and enemies
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.”

William Wordsworth

Part II, No. 17 - Wicliffe. In obedience to the order of the Council of Constance (1415), the remains of Wickliffe were exhumed and burned to ashes, and these cast into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by; and "thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over", Thomas Fuller, Church History, section ii, book iv, paragraph 53; Compare also: "What Heraclitus would not laugh, or what Democritus would not weep?… For though they digged up his body, burned his bones, and drowned his ashes, yet the word of God and truth of his doctrine, with the fruit and success thereof, they could not burn", Fox, Book of Martyrs, vol. i. p. 606 (edition, 1611); "Some prophet of that day said,—
"'The Avon to the Severn runs, / The Severn to the sea; / And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad / Wide as the waters be'", Daniel Webster, Address before the Sons of New Hampshire (1849), and similarly quoted by the Rev. John Cumming in the Voices of the Dead.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

“A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 2. <br class="br"> She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

“Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 12.

“Like—but oh, how different!”

William Wordsworth

Yes, It Was the Mountain Echo, st. 2 (1806).

“The budding rose above the rose full blown.”

William Wordsworth livre The Prelude

Bk. XI, l. 121.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.”

William Wordsworth

Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

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